Vox

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Ashkan Soltani was part of the Do Not Track effort back in 2010 as a staff technologist at the FTC and has spent most of his career researching and investigating internet privacy and tracking. Microsoft Edge: The new and improved Internet Explorer? Microsoft used to dominate the browser market with its problematic Internet Explorer.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Codex is built on the top of GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generation model , which was trained on a sizable chunk of the internet, and as a result can generate and parse the written word in impressive ways. This latter point has led many coders to complain that OpenAI is profiting unfairly from their work.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But that inevitably means there are scammers ready to use the internet to take advantage of these vaccine seekers to steal their money and personal information. These schemes are showing up in different corners of the internet, including on eBay, in Google ads, and on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

New AI “foundation” models like GPT-3 and DALL-E that can generate new sentences or images were built using massive training sets pulled from the internet. Artificial intelligence is transforming how tech companies do everything from selling products to routing packages.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. And they did, relatively quickly, using something known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. You find clues.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A senior Ukrainian minister had appealed to Elon Musk via Twitter early on, to route Starlink satellites that provide high-speed internet over the country to keep the country connected even if infrastructure on the ground was destroyed. They hit the internet of things. Elon Musk is genuinely a hero here,” Schmidt said.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

She compared recent advancements in generative AI to the creation of the internet itself. “I In the ’80s, we had the advent of the personal computer; in the ’90s, the internet; and in the 2000s, the mobile phone and the suite of apps built on it. “We I think this is absolutely on the same order of magnitude. That’s a personal belief.”

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

The new Bing uses generative AI in its web search function to return results that appear as longer, written answers culled from various internet sources instead of a list of links to relevant websites. And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

These programs got better and better, training on billions of images that were usually scraped from the internet without their original creators’ knowledge or permission. When you see a digital image on the internet and it’s AI generated, it can be cool, but it doesn’t, like, shock you,” St. Pierre said.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Meta has been a leader in making AI open source. The AI cybersecurity researcher Jeffrey Ladish told me that his nonprofit, Palisade Research, has tested how difficult this workaround is as part of efforts to better understand risks from AI systems. That’s the good news.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

The internet trust tool NewsGuard reports that Natural News “severely violates basic standards of credibility and transparency.” Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. Support Vox’s explanatory journalism.

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Vox

APRIL 2, 2021

It also provided $100 billion to America’s digital infrastructure, with a lofty goal of giving all Americans access to the affordable, reliable high-speed internet they need to participate in today’s economy. High-speed internet is essential in the 21st century, but nearly 30 million Americans lack access. I’m all in.”. I'm all in.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Parler , the right wing’s social media alternative, was also booted from the internet; Google and Apple banned it from its app stores and Amazon Web Services stopped hosting the app on its servers. Signal’s software is open sourced, so others can download or copy it.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees. This being the internet, not everyone operates in good faith or knows what they’re talking about, so the site has a longstanding reputation for inaccuracy. And Wikipedia is important.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Kasriel worked at the Medialab of The Guardian newspaper back in the early days of the Internet, before leading the Knowledge Venturing team at the Henley Centre consultancy for a decade, and then founding Futureal. Location: New York, NY, USA. danah boyd is a leading expert on the intersection of technology and society. Twitter: @MetaJulie1.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

The baseless claim is a fixture of the right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory movement, and its most recent iteration saw QAnon adherents citing the timing of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s posts to the internet as “evidence” that some significant event was coming, calling it #pompeocountdown. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

million to nonprofits and universities using artificial intelligence and data analytics to better understand the coronavirus crisis, and its impact on vulnerable communities. If it passes, it could be one of the most restrictive internet laws in the world. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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